μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Object bleeds.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Inanimate objects act as if living. · view the constellation · filed as F991

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Filed under Inanimate objects act as if living.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Bleeding lance. Stream of blood flows from it into silver cup. (Cf. D1086.) Bleeding bone. Man cuts into dry bone that bleeds Bleeding cake Shrine bleeds Bleeding rock
Filed beside it
Plant shrieks when uprooted Sunken bell sounds Object expresses sorrow Shield shrieks in battle Waters react to words of poet Sword pierces rock when possessor will break it Combat with horse's sex organ. (Cf. D1469.5.) Extraordinary heads act as living objects Substituted silver hand used as if it were of flesh and blood Cooked food grows when planted Extraordinary activity of mountains. (Cf. F755.) Inanimate object acts as if living

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